Google have made a lot of noise about the various iterations of Panda and Penguin updates and how they are taking measures to improve the quality of search results for their users while removing sites...
Posts tagged "Gareth Owen"
So, Google wants to answer my questions…
By Gareth Owen Google is going to change the way it displays search results in order to ‘answer questions’ rather than provide a list of sites that might contain the answers. That’s good, hopefully...
How to train an SEO
By Gareth Owen STEAK is hiring interns, and interviewing for summer internships as well. If you have a passion for competition, a bit of a fascination with analysis of data and a strategic mind,...
STEAK vs Dentsu: A lesson in fitness, but the signs are positive
By Peter Wood In football, a preseason friendly is the chance to establish where you are with a playing squad, judge fitness levels and test out new formations. Last night’s Old Street encounter was no...
10 Elements of a Perfectly Optimised Page
By Gareth Owen, Search Engine Watch, 18 January 2012 One area that search engines have made a number of significant advancements in recent years is in how they evaluate content on a website. So what...
Conspiracy theories, and Google’s natural search results…
By Gareth Owen, Search Engine Watch, October 26th, 2011 I am not usually one for a conspiracy theory, unless it’s contained within a decent yarn like the Da Vinci code… but over the last year in...
Top 13 Social Media Ranking Factors for SEO
By Gareth Owen, Search Engine Watch, Mar 16 2011 Depending on who you speak to, search engine optimization (SEO) is either largely influenced or not at all influenced by social media. I’m sure everyone has their...
SEO and PPC: A Love-Hate Relationship
By Gareth Owen, Search Engine Watch, Feb 16 2011 Alex Cohen yesterday wrote about how paid results are increasingly getting clicks at the expense of organic results in “PPC vs. SEO: Paid Search as Your Organic...
The links effect
This morning, the world of SEO had one of its almost quarterly fits of agitation, involving much commentary, re-tweeting and blogging (oh, the irony ). Usually this chatter is a response to some Google update...
Social Media Links and SEO — Spam Ye Not!
By Gareth Owen, Search Engine Watch, Jan 19 2011 Two subjects have been prominent in search engine optimization (SEO) over the last month or so: the quality of sites appearing in Google’s results, and the impact...
How Will SEO Evolve in 2011?
By Gareth Owen, Search Engine Watch, Dec 15 2011 It’s that time of year again. SEO bloggers are either looking back at their predictions for 2010 and seeing how right (or wrong) they were, or making...
Google and Bing confirm ‘Social’ ranking signals
Thanks to some great investigative journalism, and a degree of open-ness from the two major search engines, we now have a degree of confirmation that social media links and mentions are indeed part of the...